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Coloma urges PIOs to view geohazard maps on PIA website especially during typhoons
CEBU CITY, December 10 (PIA)–Secretary Sonny Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) urged public information officers (PIOs) to access the website of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) where the geohazard maps containing areas highly vulnerable to landslides and flooding per region to province are found. By accessing the ‘geohazard maps,’ Coloma said the PIOs can significantly help in educating the people especially those living in danger zones what to do in case of imminent typhoons. “In the upper right corner of the website is written ‘geohazard maps,’ which you can just click wherein you can also choose which region down to province you want to check on regarding the susceptibility of flooding and landslides,” Coloma said. The PCOO chief, who was guest of honor during the Information Officers’ Year-end Conference and Awards 2012, showed before the more than 100 PIOs of various government agencies from Region 6 how to access the geohazard maps at the PIA website. Coloma expressed sadness over the death toll of typhoon Pablo which was pegged at 647 as of this posting. Compostela Valley had the most number of deaths currently reported at 316 excluding those that are still missing. “Compostela Valley is an accident waiting to happen as based on the geohazard map alone, it is a very critical area with high susceptibility of landslides,” bared Coloma. The geohazard maps are color-coded to determine the susceptibility of an area to landslides or flooding. Red color refers to high susceptibility of which Compostela Valley was categorized, while green color refers to moderate susceptibility to landslides and yellow as low susceptibility to landslides. Last... read moreGeohazard maps, makita sa PIA website
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Dec.11 (PIA)–Si Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Sec. Sonny Coloma mi-agda sa mga public information officers (PIOs) sa paglantaw sa website sa Philippine Information Agency (PIA) diin makita ang geohazard maps nga nagpakita sa mga lugar nga kuyaw sa pagdahili sa yuta ug pagbaha matag rehiyon hangtud na sa mga lalawigan. Sa paglantaw sa geohazard maps, ang mga PIOs makatabang gayud og daku sa pag-edukar sa katawhan ilabi na kadtong mga nagpuyo sa danger zones o kuyaw nga dapit kun unsay buhaton kun adunay nagkaduol nga bagyo, sigun pa ni Coloma. “In the upper right corner of the website is written ‘geohazard maps,’ which you can just click wherein you can also choose which region down to province you want to check on regarding the susceptibility of flooding and landslides,” matud pa ni Coloma. Ang kalihim sa PCOO maoy pinasidunggang dinapit atol sa Information Officers’ Year-end Conference and Awards 2012 niadtong Disyembre 7 nga gipahigayon sa Nature’s Village Resort sa Talisay City, Negros Occidental. Kapin sa 100 ka PIOs gikan sa nagkalain-laing ahensiya sa gobyerno gikan sa rehiyon 6 ang nitambong sa maong kalihokan. Si Coloma nipadayag sa iyang kasub-anan sa mga namatay sa bagyong Pablo nga nikabat na karon sa 714 samtang 890 pa ang gipangita diin kadaghanan niini taga Compostela Valley. “Compostela Valley is an accident waiting to happen as based on the geohazard map alone, it is a very critical area with high susceptibility of landslides,” pagbutyag ni Coloma. Ang geohazard maps gi color-coded aron pagtumbok sa mga lugar nga kuyaw sa pagdahili sa yuta ug pagbaha. Pula (red) ang kolor sa mga... read more
CFO names 3 towns with most au pair beneficiaries
TAGBILARAN CITY, Sept 7 (PIA)–Believe it or not, three towns in Bohol have been tagged by the Commission of Filipinos Overseas (CFO) as having the highest number of “au pair” beneficiaries. And what is that “au pair”? It is French for, “at par” or equal, and allows a young person to partially work as domestic assistant in a foreign country by taking a share in the host family’s responsibilities, while the other part, is for the person to get to school. And while au pair has presented to Filipinos a way to study, in exchange for childcare, some light housework, Boholanos from Pilar, Sierra Bullones and Tagbilaran have been most numerous in the CFO list. Au pairs work but while working light jobs, they take on easy tasks because government regulations allow them to be in the foreign country primarily for reasons of education, said Princess Mayumi Kaye Peralta of the CFO project management division. So when the name doesn’t ring a bell, it may be because the program, which has been on since 2000, was temporarily suspended owing to the tendency of host families to abuse the good-natured Filipinos, the CFO administrative assistant said. Then, au pairs who stay in the host families, when they do the laundry, initially offers to include a few until the government realized the candidate was washing all the laundry and has few hours left for studies. An au pair receives an allowance, and a private room, the usual practice is that au pairs eat with the family most of the time, and join in some of the usual...No Results Found
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